Tag Archives: Dallas police

Post navigation

A red Ford Escort flipped onto its roof in the crash at Royal Lane and Cromwell Drive. (Matthew Busch/Staff Photographer)

Update, 9:10 a.m. May 9: The crash that killed a 19-year-old East Texas woman Thursday morning was the result of the driver speeding on a wet, slick street, according to a police report.

According to police, the Henderson County woman, whose name is not being released pending next of kin notification, was a passenger in a 1998 red Ford Escort. The driver headed west around the 3500 block of Royal Lane.

“The suspect was driving at a speed unsafe for the conditions because the vehicle lost traction on the wet roadway,” the police report says.

The Escort struck a curb, became airborne and crashed into a tree, police said. It rolled on to its left side, then flipped over. The woman was partially ejected and the car came to rest on top of her, according to the report.

The woman died at the scene. Police labeled the accident as a criminally negligent homicide in their report. It is unclear if the driver has been charged.

Original post: A woman was killed Thursday morning after the car she was riding in struck a tree on Royal Lane and Cromwell Drive, according to Dallas Fire-Rescue.

Fire-Rescue responded to the 911 call at about 8:45 a.m. The 19-year-old passenger died at the scene. The driver has not been taken to the hospital, Dallas Fire-Rescue said.

The red car flipped over and has not been cleared yet. Three lanes at Royal and Marsh Lane are closed, KXAS-TV (Channel 5) reports.

A Rockwall man was killed Saturday when he was ejected from his car during a wreck on Interstate 30, Dallas police said.

The man, whose identity will be released once his family is notified, was driving on the freeway around 2 p.m. Police said the man was east of Dalrock Road when he tried to avoid stopping traffic in front of him by turning into the inside shoulder. But the front left side of his 1993 Toyota Camry slammed into the concrete median wall.

The collision caused the sedan to roll, and the man was ejected, according to a police report.

A single car accident in Pleasant Grove on North Masters Drive near Lake June Road left one man dead Sunday evening.

According to Dallas police, a man, identified as Lester Solomon Jr., 34, was driving his 1994 Buick north on North Masters Drive in the center lane around 8:20 p.m., according to witnesses. A witness told police she saw the Buick “approaching her from behind, coming real fast,” according to a police report.

The man swerved to his right, losing control and hitting a utility pole and a fence. According to a police report, the broken utility pole was hanging by its wires.

Solomon suffered blunt force trauma and was pronounced dead at the scene. According to the police report, this is traffic fatality no. 29 in the city of Dallas.

A Mercury Grand Marquis wrecked and was split in half Tuesday evening in Northwest Dallas. The driver did not survive. (Robert Wilonsky/Staff).

A car crashed into a tree and was split in half Tuesday evening in Northwest Dallas (Robert Wilonsky/Staff)

Update at 9 p.m., May 29: The Dallas County Medical Examiner’s office has identified the man as Raul Alejandro Ortiz-Rios, 24.

Update at 8:07 p.m.: Robert Wilonsky spoke to Mario Chavez, a man who witnessed the accident.

Chavez said he was in his car next to the man at a red light. Both were heading north on Marsh Lane near Walnut Hill. When the light turned green, the man accelerated quickly out of the intersection, Chavez said.

The speed limit in that area is 35 mph. Chavez said the man was going much faster than that.

Chavez said he lost sight of the man when the man drove beyond a hill near Merrell Drive. When Chavez saw the man again, he had lost control of his car, which spun in circles before slamming into the tree.

Coroners have arrived at the scene. Southbound Marsh Lane is currently closed off, and one lane is getting by on the northbound side.

Update at 7:57 p.m.: Staff writer Robert Wilonsky is on the scene. He sends in these details (and the pictures:

The driver, a male in his 20s, was killed in the wreck.

The man was driving a Mercury Grand Marquis with paper license tags.

The front end of the car was split from the car during the collision and is now in the street. The rest of the car remains against the tree in the median.

Original post: A car was essentially split in half when it struck a tree Tuesday evening in Northwest Dallas, Dallas Fire-Rescue officials said.

Dallas Fire-Rescue and Dallas police responded to the crash in the 10200 block of Marsh Lane shortly after 7 p.m.

Dallas Fire-Rescue officials said they are trying to cut the driver out of the car. The total number of injuries are unknown.

Dallas police are investigating a 30-year-old woman’s death after she was found unresponsive in her apartment and later pronounced dead.

On Saturday around 10:10 p.m., police say Sarita N. Edwards was found unresponsive by Dallas Fire-Rescue at her Far Northeast Dallas apartment in the 11000 block of Audelia Road. She was taken to Medical City Dallas Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police spokeswoman Melinda Guttierez said.

The homicide unit was notified and an unexplained death report was documented, pending further investigation, Gutierrez said.

Close followers of Dallas Police news know that the department shut down its website over the weekend because of a security breach.

Here at The Scoop, we’re pretty eager for them to reinstate it, because it helps us report stalled cars and accidents on side streets around town. Even if I don’t hear about a wreck before heading out, I like checking to see what the problem was after I’ve sat in traffic for 20 minutes.

The last time the police took their website down, it only took a day or two to come back, so keep your fingers crossed. In the meantime, websites from the Texas Department of Transportation and North Texas Tollway Authority still report wrecks and slowdowns, and they still show up on our interactive traffic map. (Remember, no pins, means no reported wrecks.)

By the way, if you’re a fan of our homepage’s Dallas 911 “latest calls” feature, which provides a running feed of calls Dallas police respond to, that’s down, too. Scanner addicts can switch over to the Arlington Police calls if they need a fix.